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Bibliography of India

This is a bibliography of notable works about the historical Indian subcontinent as well as the modern-day Republic of India.

India history books

Single volume works

Primary sources

Ancient India
Medieval India
British Raj

Secondary sources

  • Balagangadhara, S. N. 2012. Reconceptualizing India Studies. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
  • Bryant, Edwin. 2001. The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture. Oxford University Press
  • Chakrabarti, Dilip K. 1997. Colonial Indology. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal.
  • Durant, W. 2011. The Case for India. Mumbai: Strand Book Stall.
  • Inden, R. B. 2010. Imagining India. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
  • Karkare, Neelesh Ishwarchandra. 2014. Shreenath Madhavji: Mahayoddha Mahadji Ki Shourya Gatha.
  • Lal, B. B. 1997. The earliest civilization of South Asia: Rise, maturity, and decline. New Delhi: Aryan Books International.
  • —— 1998. India 1947-1997: New light on the Indus civilization. New Delhi: Aryan Books International.
  • Lal, K. S. 1980. History of the Khaljis: A.D. 1290-1320. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal.
  • Adluri, Vishwa, and Joydeep Bagchee. 2014. The Nay Science: A History of German Indology. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Guha, Ramachandra. 2007. India after Gandhi.
  • Dharampal. [1983] 1995. The beautiful tree: Indigenous Indian education in the eighteenth century. New Delhi: Biblia Impex Private Limited.
  • —— 2000. Indian science and technology in the eighteenth century: Some contemporary European accounts. Goa: Other India Press.
  • Panikkar, K. M. 1965. Asia and Western dominance. Millswood, AU: Braille Writing Association of South Australia.
  • Priolkar, A. K. 1961. "The Goa Inquisition: Being a Quatercentenary Commemoration Study of the Inquisition in India." Bombay University.
  • Majumdar, Ramesh C. 1962. History of the Freedom Movement in India, 3 vols. Calcutta: K. L. Mukhopadhyay. .
  • —— 1970. Historiography in Modern India. London: Asia Publishing House.
  • Majumdar, Ramesh C., Hem C. Raychaudhuri, and Kalikinkar Datta. [1946] 2007. An Advanced History of India. Delhi: Macmillan India.
  • Trautmann, Thomas. 1997. Aryans and British India. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Sen, Amartya. 2005. The Argumentative Indian. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
  • Elphinstone, Mountstuart. 1841. The History of India, 2 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 1, vol. 2.
  • Sachau, Eduard C. 1910. Alberuni's India — An account of ... India about A.D. 1030, 2 vols. London: Kegan Paul, Trench Trubner & Co.Ltd. vol. 1, vol. 2.
  • Elliot, Henry M. 1867–1877. The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians. The Muhammadan Period, 8 vols., edited by J. Dowson.

Multivolume works

Race, caste and tribe

Primary sources

Northern India

Central Provinces

  • Enthoven, Reginald Edward. 1920–1922. The Tribes and Castes of Bombay, 3 vols. Bombay: Government Central Press.
  • Russell, Robert Vane. 1916. Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, 4 vols. Rai Bahadur Hira Lal. London: Macmillan & Co.

Southern India

Secondary sources

Biography

Biographical dictionaries and encyclopedias

Manuals and gazetteers

Travelogues

Early period

  • Indica by Megasthenes, c. 300 BCE
  • , 414 CE
  • Great Tang Records on the Western Regions, by Hiuen Tsang. 646 CE.
  • Majumdar, R. C. (1981). The Classical accounts of India: Being a compilation of the English translations of the accounts left by Herodotus, Megasthenes, Arrian, Strabo, Quintus, Diodorus, Siculus, Justin, Plutarch, Frontinus, Nearchus, Apollonius, Pliny, Ptolemy, Aelian, and others with maps. Calcutta: Firma KLM.

Early modern period

  • Meenakshi Jain, The India They Saw (co-edited with Sandhya Jain, 4 Volumes, Prabhat Prakashan), , , , .

Late modern

Provinces

Biodiversity and environment

  • Karan, P. P. "Environmental movements in India." Geographical Review 84#1 (1994): 32-41. online
  • Nayak, Arun Kumar. "Environmental movements in India." Journal of developing societies 31.2 (2015): 249-280. online
  • Saravanan, Velayutham. Environmental History of Modern India: Land, Population, Technology and Development (Bloomsbury Publishing India, 2022) online review; also see excerpt at Amazon]
  • Shiva, Vandana. "Ecology Movements in India", in Oomen, T. K. (Ed.), Social Movements: Issues of Identity (Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2011)
  • Turaga, Rama Mohana R., and Anish Sugathan. "Environmental regulations in India." in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science (2020) online

Flora

Fauna

Princely states

People, politics and customs

  • Kishwar, M., & Vanita, R. (1996). In search of answers: Indian women's voices from Manushi : a selection from the first five years of Manushi. Daryaganj, New Delhi: Manohar.
  • Goel, S. R. 1998. Vindicated by Time: The Niyogi Committee Report on Christian Missionary Activities. Madhya Pradesh: Christian Missionary Activities Enquiry Committee.

Religion, culture and arts

  • Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish. 1909. . London: Probsthain.
  • Ghose, Aurobindo. 1998. The Foundations of Indian Culture. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram.
  • Gupta, S. P., and S. Asthana. 2007. Elements of Indian Art: Including Temple Architecture, Iconography & Iconometry. New Delhi: Indraprastha Museum of Art and Archaeology.
  • Gupta, S. P., & Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute. 2011. The Roots of Indian Art: A detailed study of the formative period of Indian art and architecture, third and second centuries B.C., Mauryan and late Mauryan. Delhi: B.R. Publishing Corporation.
  • Kak, S. 2015. The Wishing Tree: Presence and Promise of India. Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.
  • Kishwar, M. (1989). Manushi: Women Bhakta poets. New Delhi: Manushi Trust.
  • Lokesh, Chandra, and T. Chandrika. 1997. Cultural Horizons of India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.
  • Malhotra, Rajiv. 2011. Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism. HarperCollins India. .
  • —— 2016. Battle for Sanskrit. Harper Collins India. .
  • Robinson, W. Andrew. 1989. Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye: The Biography of a Master Film-Maker. vol 1, .
  • Sethna, K. D. (1989). Ancient India in a New Light. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.

Performance art

  • Shourie, Arun. 1979. Hinduism, Essence and Consequence: A Study of the Upanishads, the Gita, and the Brahma-Sutras. Sahibabad, District. Ghaziabad: Vikas.

Religion, folk tales, and spiritual heritage

  • Crooke, William. 1896. An Introduction to the Popular Religion and Folklore of Northern India (revised and illustrated ed.), 2 vols. North-Western Provinces and Oudh: Government press.
  • Dayananda, S., and C. Bharadwaja. 1932. Light of Truth, or, An English translation of the Satyartha Prakasha: The Well-Known Work of Swami Dayananda Saraswati. Madras: Arya Samaj.
  • Elst, K. 2014. Decolonizing the Hindu Mind: Ideological Development of Hindu Revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa.
  • Frawley, David. 2014. How I became a Hindu: My Discovery of Vedic Dharma.
  • —— 2015. Shiva: The Lord of Yoga. Lotus Press.
  • Gautier, Francois. 2008. The Guru of Joy: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar & the Art of Living. Carlsbad, Calif: Hay House.
  • Klostermaier, K. K. 2007. A Survey of Hinduism. Albany: State University of New York Press.
  • Malhotra, Rajiv. 2014. Indra's Net: Defending Hinduism's Philosophical Unity. HarperCollins India. .
  • Narain, H. 1983. Facets of Indian Religio-Philosophic Identity. Delhi u.a: Bharatiya Vidya Prakashan.
  • Prabhavananda, Swami. 1962. The Spiritual Heritage of India.
  • Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli. 1953. The Principal Upanishads.
  • Shourie, Arun. 2017. Two Saints: Speculations around and about Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and Ramana Maharishi. Harper Collins.
  • Shourie, Arun, and S. R. Goel. 2009. Hindu Temples, What Happened to Them.
  • Swarup, R., and David Frawley. 2001. The Word as Revelation: Names of Gods. New Delhi: Voice of India.
  • Yogananda, Paramahansa. 1946. Autobiography of a Yogi.

Fiction

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